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Old March 6th 06, 07:35 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
ANDREW ROBERT BREEN ANDREW ROBERT BREEN is offline
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Default Vote for Beck's Tube Map in the Great British Design Quest

In article ,
Chris Read wrote:

Shirley Concorde is only half British?


IIRC the structural design had a lot of Aerospatiale input, but the
basic configuration - ogival delta wing and all - was pretty much
straight Bristol. The pity was that the build wasn't the same size as
the original 6-Olympii Bristol design. That might have been a better
commercial proposition.

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